This Breviary was created ca. 1460-70 in the manner of the followers of Willem Vrelant. Featuring a calendar for monastic use, this book exhibits affiliations with St. Vaast in Arras. Further, a Franciscan association is indicated by additions to the calendar and its decoration. The breviary was owned in Belgium sometime in the sixteenth century (a possible contemporary expunged ink inscription can be found at the foot of fol. 9r). It was rebound sometime in the early eighteenth century and is connected to Ludwig Rosenthal, ca. 1900.
Written in textura; calendar filled by early additions of several hands
artist: Followers of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 778, cat. no. 133.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, part 2, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 193-200 (ref. under cat. no. 241, W. 719).
West Flanders (?)
1460-70 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Rebound in Belgium or France in first quarter of the nineteenth century; straight grain red leather sewn on three recessed boards; glued-on endbands of red and white; gilt edges with gauffered diamond design
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created for monastic use, ca. 1460-70; illumination of in similar manner to the followers of Willem Vrelant; affiliation with St. Vaast in Arras indicated in calendar; Franciscan association evinced in added calendar entries and decoration
Owned in Belgium, probably in the sixteenth century
Rebound in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; "412" written thereafter in ink on back flyleaf i, in top right-hand corner
Ludwig Rosenthal, Germany, ca. 1900
Leo. S. Olschki, Florence, rare book dealer; item no. 95 in his catalogue in French, affixed to front flyleaf i, priced "600.-," citing inventory no. "22544"; this number on front pastedown in pencil between "LB XIX 322967" and "B 33 No. 95"/"RH2R 4624"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo. S. Olschki between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
West Flanders (?)
1460-70 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Created for monastic use, ca. 1460-70; illumination of in similar manner to the followers of Willem Vrelant; affiliation with St. Vaast in Arras indicated in calendar; Franciscan association evinced in added calendar entries and decoration
Owned in Belgium, probably in the sixteenth century
Rebound in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; "412" written thereafter in ink on back flyleaf i, in top right-hand corner
Ludwig Rosenthal, Germany, ca. 1900
Leo. S. Olschki, Florence, rare book dealer; item no. 95 in his catalogue in French, affixed to front flyleaf i, priced "600.-," citing inventory no. "22544"; this number on front pastedown in pencil between "LB XIX 322967" and "B 33 No. 95"/"RH2R 4624"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Leo. S. Olschki between 1900 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Breviary was created ca. 1460-70 in the manner of the followers of Willem Vrelant. Featuring a calendar for monastic use, this book exhibits affiliations with St. Vaast in Arras. Further, a Franciscan association is indicated by additions to the calendar and its decoration. The breviary was owned in Belgium sometime in the sixteenth century (a possible contemporary expunged ink inscription can be found at the foot of fol. 9r). It was rebound sometime in the early eighteenth century and is connected to Ludwig Rosenthal, ca. 1900.
Written in textura; calendar filled by early additions of several hands
artist: Followers of Willem Vrelant
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Wallace, Susan
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 778, cat. no. 133.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, part 2, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; pp. 193-200 (ref. under cat. no. 241, W. 719).
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